Examines ways of measuring the impact of community and institutional variables on individual fertility.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on basic needs policies in development planning, comprising an empirical case study of Sri Lanka - presents a theoretical framework and economic model for analysing resource allocation efficiency, including the effect on different socio- economic groups and...

The paper indicates a number of preventive measures targeted to the elimination of the causes of stress, rather than the treatment of its effects, and how these measures can become an integral part of the necessary organizational development and eventually pay for themselves. The paper has seven...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on population theory - discusses interactions between causes and present and future consequences of fertility change, its decrease in western developed countries and low birth rate in Eastern Europe and China, the case for birth control in developing countries, and...